The new FRONT will feature works by 100 artists at locations including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Public Library, the Akron Art Museum, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, and even the Cleveland Clinic.
Art handlers were busy installing artworks big and small for the upcoming, an 11-week extravaganza of local, national, and international art officially opening July 16 at 30 venues across Northeast Ohio.
The Transformer Station at 1460 W. 29th St., a repurposed landmark that once powered electric streetcars on the city’s West Side, will serve as the headquarters for this year’s FRONT, in part as a response to comments that the sprawling 2018 triennial lacked a central point of orientation. Their project is comprised of two hollow rectangular beams of black-painted steel and aluminum that can be spun like telescopes on turntables mounted in towers of X-braced aluminum trusses rising 24 feet to the gallery ceiling.
“If we’re playing with ideas of absence and presence in [a] text, that has a whole host of social connotations,’’ Oppenheimer said. “What does it mean to redact text, to make text legible differently, to re-author it, to rewrite it?”
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